Summer Support Requests

Please note that due to summer holiday schedules, support ticket response time may be delayed and will be operated on a best-efforts basis. We appreciate your patience and to resuming full operations in the fall! Comments and feedback is always welcome to info@westgrid.ca as we work to continually improve our efforts to support your research.

Upcoming Webinars

ParaView

During the last couple of years, WestGrid offered a recurring introductory workshop on scientific visualization using ParaView. These one-day sessions provided an introductory-level workshop on how to use ParaView for scientific visualization. To view the presentations and data, see the Data and Exercises section.

What is ParaView?

ParaView is an open source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application. ParaView users can quickly build visualizations to analyze their data using qualitative and quantitative techniques. This workshop explores the basics of scientific visualization with 2- and 3-dimensional data sets through hands-on exercises, focusing primarily on multidimensional datasets. Attendees need to bring a laptop and should have ParaView installed on their laptop before the workshop. Wireless networking is usually available during the workshop.

Workshop Outline

Scientific visualization overview

ParaView interface

2D and 3D visualization

Volume rendering

Data sets and formats

Putting it all together: creating a visualization pipeline, using filters

Python scripting in ParaView

Animation

Visualization resources at WestGrid, Compute Canada

Remote visualization using WestGrid resources

Data and Excercises

During the workshop we explore a set of datasets as excercises. The workshop is very hands on, and you will be creating relatively sophisticated visualizations by the end of the session. Here are examples of our datasets and exercises during the workshop:

Installing ParaView

The ParaView Visualization workshop is a hands on workshop. All workshop attendees will need to bring a laptop with ParaView installed. Installing ParaView is straightforward. There are installers for Windows, OSX, and Linux. Please visit the ParaView download page and install ParaView according to the directions for your specific operating system.

Future Workshops

We'd like to gauge the community's interest in:

future workshop locations

other visualization tools (e.g., VisIT) and topics you'd like to learn more about

Possible topics could include introduction to various general-purpose and domain-specific visualization tools, remote visualization using HPC hardware, in-situ visualization, etc. Alternatively, if you have a specific model or dataset that you'd like to visualize, and there is a significant target audience, we could develop a smaller workshop around that dataset type.

Please let us know if you would like a session hosted at your institution.